Active Blogs | Popular Blogs | Recent Blogs With the iPad mini, Apple expands its range of tablet and becomes the first format. Finished the 9.7-inch screen that fitted so far all models up to a 7.9 inch screen much smaller, which allows the manufacturer to offer a tablet at reduced size. We remember Steve Jobs criticism against the 7-inch size. Apple has yet chosen to advance his pawns on the market with its own version. Is it an ordinary 7-inch tablet that would compete directly with Google's Nexus 7.As always with Apple, the box that protects the iPad mini says a lot about the product. The manufacturer has managed to make smaller, much smaller than even the boxes of 9.7-inch iPad. When you see, when taken, it is a book that you think, but certainly not a standard iPad. It's simple, the iPad is larger than standard the only box this new tablet ...
The grip is even more impressive. When we used the iPad, this newcomer is very small, but extremely Dell Latitude E6500 battery lightweight. With 308 grams on the scale for the WiFi model tested here (312 gr on 3G), this tablet is two times lighter than the iPad with Retina display equivalent. The difference is really significant, more between an iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 for example. The other thing that strikes at the opening of the box this time for the frame around the screen. Good size on the iPad, it is reduced to a mere trickle on the sides of the iPad mini. Even borders on the top and bottom have been reduced, so that the screen occupies much more space on the front of this model. This new tablet is also much smaller. It is less high with four inches shorter (20 cm for iPad mini, against 24 cm for the iPad), it is also less wide than 5 cm (13.5 against 18.6 cm) and finer. While the iPad 2 was 8.8 mm and the iPad with Retina display amounted to 9.4 mm thick, the iPad and its mini 7.2 mm appear thinner, although the difference is not as clear as that between the first iPad and its successor (read: Testing the iPad 2 16GB WiFi).
The iPad mini (black) is thinner than the iPad with Retina Display (White) - Click to enlarge. The difference was much greater between the iPad 2 and its predecessor ... These measurements combined with reduced weight reduces the tablet provide an amazing sensation, as if the iPad mini was too small, as if it was just a toy. After taking the new tablet in hands, it is the opposite happens and we have the impression that the iPad is too big and heavy. The iPad mini is not only smaller, it also seems more precious than its big brother. The Compaq Presario CQ60 battery build quality of this tablet is generally impeccable, far ahead of its competitors from other brands. Apple has taken the manufacturing processes used for the iPhone 5 and iPod touch 5G and found a design close enough to these two models.
 
Unlike traditional iPad, the back of the mini iPad is in agreement with the color of the front face. The black model is fully black, white is for its white and gray back. In all cases, there is a layer of aluminum and possibly color the apple on the back is still black and shiny. If you like to keep your tablet immaculate, you'll want to opt for the white model. The back of the iPad mini black is very sensitive to fingerprints, the same way as the old black MacBook. Traces accumulate and quickly loses the pristine side of the rear seat, even if just to rub restore its state.
The iPad is quickly black mini office collector fingerprints - click to enlarge
The edges of the iPad mini are quite different from those of the standard iPad. Less sections, they are more rounded and very close to the new iPod touch. As we will see later, this is a positive point to take the tablet, but the result is also better, we have the impression that the manufacturer has just stuck two elements together, they seem intertwined. Chamfered edges of the iPad mini are brilliant aesthetic effect is however very sensitive to fingerprints and scratches ... Apple has chosen to place metal buttons on this new model. The HP Pavilion DV6000 battery tablet was previously simply invariably black plastic parts, but it was right this time not only aluminum, but also given a color to the rest. The rendering is really successful, even if these buttons may be a quite unpleasant on some models.
iPad (below) against iPad mini (above): the latter is more rounded and has the right to metal buttons in the color of the iPad (here the white model)
The iPad mini (above) is quite close to the iPod touch 5G (bottom) on the design side - click to enlarge
The performance of an iPad 3
As always, Apple is held to a minimum on the technical specifications of the iPad mini. During the special event, Phil Schiller summed it up by saying that the new Apple tablet was equivalent, if not better, the iPad 2. Just like its predecessor, it features a dual core A5 processor. Unsurprisingly, it was also quickly discovered that, like its big brother, the iPad mini sailed 512 MB of RAM. The performances are theoretically at the iPad 2, that all tests conducted confirm. In most cases, iPad 2, iPad 3 and iPad mini actually stand in a handkerchief. We used three tools to measure the performance of the range iPad: Geekbench 2 which measures the raw performance of CPU and memory that GLBenchmark can get an idea of the graphics capabilities of a device and SunSpider, which remains a reference JavaScript to test the performance of a browser.
Level of feeling, iPad mini is often fast and responsive. Accustomed to the iPad 2 and the iPad 3, we did not notice any big differences in the context of everyday use. The only difference may be the iPad 3 comes from the amount of RAM available. With 512 MB, iPad mini is forced to clean up a little more often than its big brother. This is seen especially in mobile Safari: If you load a large number of tabs, they tend to require more frequent recharging on the small shelf on the iPad Retina display.
Just like the iPad 2 reviewed in the spring and unlike earlier models, the iPad features a mini A5 SoC engraved in 32 nm. This method of finer engraving has several advantages: the chip less heat and consume less energy. The fact that Apple does not offer a Retina displa
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